02/05/2021
Hello TSH friends and supporters,
Without hashing all my personal issues over again, I need to say that I’ve done it again... I’ve planned an event and I can’t follow through with it, I’m terribly sorry.
I’m just not well enough mentally and physically to handle running the Flash Market today and tomorrow. It was far too optimistic, thoughtless and impulsive to jump into it, given where I’m at.
I don’t want to be lengthy with this as the time for that has been and gone, but basically I need to get off the merry-go-round.
Maintaining TSH is too much for me now. I don’t have the stamina to put time in every day to social media to maintain my presence, and Facebook and Instagram is punishing my reach to you all when I do post occasionally, because of this. I am having more trouble than ever maintaining timelines for Notions Club as I have many more “off” days mentally and physically than “on” days. As much as I love my business and the fabulous friends and supporters I have gained over the years, I feel like I am flogging a dead horse, which tells you everything you need to know. It’s time for me to stop fighting.
So, on that note, I am advising of the following plans for TSH:
- The imminent Flash Market is cancelled, I’m so sorry.
- TSH will be closing permanently (not the kind of “closing” I’ve done in the past where I come back a few months later when I rethink things). This will include closing down the page and the Prickly People group.
- I will be running the last couple of months of Notions Club (i.e. finishing this 3-monthly theme of “Insect Friends” through to June).
- I will then run a last month of club with a special “goodbye” theme in July.
- TSH will then close permanently after July club parcels have been fulfilled.
- There will be no “closing down market” - I simply do not have the energy left to do this. Therefore, if you want to grab some goodies, the goodbye themed month is a good opportunity to do so, as is this final 3-month theme of Notions Club.
- I am happy to take orders via the Notions Club sign up form for previous designs that I had planned to list in the Flash Market this weekend. You do not need to sign up for these last months of the club unless you want to - I have added a tick box that you can use to say “once-off order for previous club designs”. As you long as you are happy that I fulfil your orders slowly but surely in the coming weeks before I close, rather than trying to get everyone’s (potential) market purchases out all at once next week.
That’s it. I’m truly sorry for the fuss and the to-ing and fro-ing my personal issues create. It’s obvious that I can’t make things work any longer with my personal circumstances.
I will say a proper goodbye when it’s time to close the pages and group down. I promise there will be no “crying wolf” this time - I am closing permanently - but appreciate that some of you may find this hard to believe given how I’ve stopped and started again in recent years, and changed my tune multiple times. But my circumstances have changed with my CFS/ME diagnosis, and closing TSH for good without trying and trying over again is what’s required for my health. Full stop.
I hope you can have a chance to enjoy the last of my offerings if you so wish, and I thank you sincerely, truly, for being a part of the TSH journey, for being a valued supporter and friend to a small business.
Clare 💙
P.S. The re-jigged sign up form you can use to jump on the last months of Notions Club, or to order previous designs from the club is here:
https://forms.gle/RJmfcadgyBpRBQGz9
I’ll keep the form open until the middle of July, at which point it will become inactive as I get ready to close down for good.
